Knitted glove and method of making



May 11, 1943. w. .1. KUEHNEL KNITTED G'LVE AND METHOD OF MAKING Filed May 8, 1942 I I I I l l I I I l l :Fig-.2.

INVENTOR william J", Kuehrel wlw-Messes j ATTORNEYS Patented May 11, 1943 KNITTED GLOVE AND METHOD OF MAKING Wiiliam J. Kuehnel, Sag Harbor, N. Y., assignor of one-half to John G. G. Merrow, New York,

Application May S, 1942, Serial No. l142,141

(Cl. (i6- 174) 6 Claims.

This invention relates to the knitting of tubular products, and particularly to the manufacture of knitted gloves. In the past, knitted gloves have been manufactured in flat bed -or tubular machines as follows:

The hand and wrist portions terminating With the fingers have been knitted separately with cotton being striped in at the thumb juncture and across the end where the fingers would be joined.

zThereafter the stitches `for each finger would be y picked up separately and the fingers knitted outwardly 'to completion. This necessarily requires a great deal of individual labor, time and eX- pense, and the method is not adaptable to mass production.

In the method previously described the hand portion blank necessarily terminated in a straight line and all the fingers started from the straight line. The glove therefore could not conform completely with the hand where the Socket of the small finger is more deeply seated than those of the other fingers. In order to overcome these manufacturing difficulties, several attempts have been made to continuethe blank outwardly to the length required for the ngers and to form the ngers by sewing them. However, since the nger portion of the glove requires considerably more material-possibly 50 or 60 percent morethan the portion of the glove immediately around the knuckles, this has not been possible.

An object of this invention is to provide a glove and a method of manufacturing the same in mass production with sufficient material for the knitting in of the nger portion of the blank at the same time as the hand portion is completed.

A further object is to form a glove susceptible to mass production, in which the fingers will be formed by stitching and in which the fingers will conform tothe shape of the hand.

Moreover, it is on object of this invention in producing the glove as aforesaid, to provide fingers of the same weight and warmth as the balance of the glove.

With these and other objects in View, as the description proceeds reference is had to the accompanying drawing, in which- Fig. l is a plan vieW of therglove blank as knitted;

Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional View taken on ther line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a View of the blank with a templet placed thereon;

Fig. 4 is a view of a portion of the blank with the fingers apparently sewn;

Fig. 5 is a view of the completed finger portion of the glove;

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional viewtaken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5; K

Fig. 7 is a view of a templet which may be used in producing the glove.

In the manufacture ofthe blank I0 the cuff portion I! is knitted first. lThe palm orhand portion i2 is then knitted in the usual manner with cotton i3 striped in at I4 to provide the thumb hole. At the end l5 ofthe palm portion two changes may be made. In the rst of these heavier yarn than that used in the palm portion is fed to the needles Aso that the stitches IE produce larger wales than the stittches l1 in the hand portion. With the use of the heavier yarn an adjustment of the stitches may be necessary but this varies with the type of yarn being used and is within the skill of the operator. The second procedure is to double the yarn being knitted into the finger portion 20 so as to produce a iinger portion with substantially more material and, in fact, in some cases where the type of yarn used requires it, half again as much more material as is present in the hand portion I2. By this method the number of wales remains constant but the wales are of greater diameter and weight and the width of the blank at the finger portions is substantially increased. As the end 2i of each blank is reached, cotton is striped in and a new blank is started.

After the rblanks have been taken from the machine and separated, a templet 25 may be used to guide the stitching. The templet 25 has four fingers 26, 21, 28 and 29 withv channels 30, 3| and 32 therebetween. The templet 25 is also cut to correspond to the human hand, the channel 32 being deeper than the other channels and extending to the point 33.

When the templet is placed upon the blank l0 the position of the ngers may be chalked thereon or otherwise marked and the blank is ready for stitching. I have found that by stitching the palm of the blank slightly more material will go into the back of the glove and thusr pro` duce a more comfortable fit. The fingers are then formed by the line of stitching 35 and the glove cut to form the ngers 35, 31, 38 and 39. The thumb may be added inthe usual way. With this procedure the ngers are formed with the proper amount `of material therein so that they `are as Warm as the balance of the glove and of the same weight. The use of a templet is of course optional and any method for markingv the ngers may be used.

I claim:

1. A glove formed from a tubular blank, comprising wrist, hand and finger portions, said finger portion being knit with the same number of wales but with more yarn than the hand portion, whereby said finger portion of the blank contains substantially more material than said hand portion, and fingers being formed by a line of stitching defining said fingers with the material between said fingers cut away.

2. A method of manufacturing gloves which includes the knitting of a tubular blank, said blank having cuff, hand and finger portions, the introduction of additional yarn into the fiank when the finger portion is being knitted, whereby said finger portion contains substantially more material than the hand portion, the stitching of fingers in said finger portion and the cutting of material to form said fingers.

3. In a glove formed from a tubular blank comprising wrist, hand and finger portions, said finger portion being formed of the same number of Wales as the hand portion but with additional yarn being knitted therein, whereby said finger portion contains substantially more material and is wider than said hand portion, and fingers being formed in said finger portion by a line of stitching defining each finger.

4. A method of manufacturing gloves which includes the knitting of a tubular blank, said blank having cuff, hand and finger portions, the introduction of additional yarn into the blank when the finger portion is being knitted, whereby said finger portion contains substantially more material than the hand portion, the marking of fingers by means of a templet on said finger portion, the defining of said fingers by lines of stitching, and the removal of material between said fingers.

5. A method of manufacturing gloves Which includes the knitting of a tubular blank, said blank having cuff, hand and finger portions, the introduction of additional yarn into the blank when the finger portion is being knitted, whereby said finger portion is wider and contains substantially more material than the hand portion, the formation of fingers in said blank by marking vsame with a templet, and the stitching of said fingers with the palm portion under slight tension to provide more material in the back of the glove.

6. A method of manufacturing gloves which includes the knitting of a plurality of tubular blanks in series, each of said tubular blanks being separated by the striping in of cotton and each of said tubular blanks consisting of wrist, hand and finger portions, the introduction of additional yarn to the blank during the knitting of the finger portions, whereby the finger 'portions contain substantially more material than the hand portion, the marking of said blanks with a templet to outline the finger portions, and the formation of the fingers by lines of stitching and by cutting away material between said lines.

WILLIAM J. KUEHNEL. 

